The NFL Thread

[The Bear]

If they had Packers @ Dolphins in Spurs new stadium I'd be there with bells on. Especially if Miami can pick up a decent QB in the draft.

For the other three (potentially) I'd love to see:

Jags v Pats (Wembley)
Houston v Kansas (Wembley)
49ers v Baltimore (Spurs)

That'd be bloody awesome.

 

[Dennisons Wrong Foot]

Good article on how the Kaepernick workout is just a PR move.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/nf...rnick-workout-looks-like-a-pr-trap/ar-BBWGIWD

 

[Tony Towner]

Can't see Garrett playing again this season
https://twitter.com/i/events/1195198342168399872

 

[The Bear]

To be fair to Garrett, Rudolph tries to pull his helmet off first, that's what Garrett reacts to. Inexcusable to swing it at him though. Couple of Steelers filling Garrett in as he went to the ground too who should get bans - Pouncey and Fowler.

 

[Carrotdude]

Bloody hell! Yeah he’s not playing for a while!

 

[PuntsWolf]

Don’t think there’s any “tbf to Garrett”. He’s trying to wrestle him to the ground for absolutely no reason. Then that starts it all off.

Pouncey coming in is just trying to protect his QB but he shouldn’t swing and kick. Not sure anyone else was doing anything particularly bad.

 

[James]

Cheers Steelers. This is Ravens AFC North

 

[lemonjelly]

Can't see Garrett playing again this season
https://twitter.com/i/events/1195198342168399872

most ridiculous thing about this for me is during the fracas, refs are throwing their flags in.
WTF will that achieve?

 

[James]

That's how they signal a penalty in American Football.

Was literally about to say that also the NFL players acknowledge and accept the officials decisions without the flag they can’t pull them up it I believe

 

[Paddingtonwolf]

15 yards for unnecessary roughness imho.

 

[James]

15 yards for unnecessary roughness imho.

replay 2nd down

 

[Paddingtonwolf]

I’m never sure about these things but is it the first penalty in a play and that is enforced or the more serious?

You obviously have unnecessary roughness against the Browns for the novel use of an opponent’s helmet and then a second against the Steelers for the punch and kick. However, the first penalty may well have been the facemask by the Steelers QB.

 

[Dennisons Wrong Foot]

I’m never sure about these things but is it the first penalty in a play and that is enforced or the more serious?

You obviously have unnecessary roughness against the Browns for the novel use of an opponent’s helmet and then a second against the Steelers for the punch and kick. However, the first penalty may well have been the facemask by the Steelers QB.

"Offsetting" penalties. If both sides are penalised they cancel each other out and replay the down.

 

[Paddingtonwolf]

So bar the ejections there was nothing else done? Fair enough, but it seems very odd in this instance.

 

[Alan]

When it's mass brawls like that it's fairly typical to eject the most obvious fire starters and then pretend it never happened. Let the league take appropriate action after the fact.

As they have done with Garrett now, who has been suspended for an "indeterminate period if time" but at a minimum will not play again this season.

 

[Johnny75]

Whilst that was all just a bit of handbags really the more serious hit was by Damarius Randall for blinsiding a Steelers receiver with a helemt to helmet hit. Proper cowardly shit and he was rightly ejected from the game. I hope the Browns get fined a lot for their behaviour from that game.

 

[Dennisons Wrong Foot]

Garrett suspended for the rest of the season

https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/nf...r-rest-of-season-by-nfl/ar-BBWP19s?li=BBnb7Kz

 

[Dire Wolf]

I think that'll be 'at least'. Wouldn't be too surprised to.see him banned for next season too, maybe charged with assault as well. He should be. What a piece of human excrement.

 

[Dennisons Wrong Foot]

A theory about a team hiring Kaepernick.

No team wants to be the outlier.
Every team knows he is potentially still very good, but no team wanted to risk alienating a large section of its fans when there was no evidence that any other team wanted him.
But now that at least 24 teams are attending his open day, every team can claim that if they did not hire him then another team would have.
If he performs well at his open day, he will be signed.

 

[Tony Towner]

I'm still not convinced. Teams are going because they feel they should, but in many cases it's junior members of the back office who will be there.

I'm not sure who would sign him at this stage of the season. Teams whose season is over either have young qbs they won't want to take playing experience off such as Washington, both New York teams and Arizona, or others such as Miami and The Bengals will be looking to the draft for a new franchise qb and are probably not going to want the publicity that comes with signing him and then making him a number 2 after 6 games.

Ultimately I think it depends how open he is to being a backup either short or medium term.